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[felis_ultharus]

First off, Happy Birthday to montrealais. I'll be at work all day and so I might not see you. I hope it's a good one ^_^

The weather's been really nice lately, at least for me. I'm sure I'll hate it when it gets really cold. But for now the leaves have turned, and it's been raining. I love how the city looks in the rain. And lately I've been going to work at dawn, so when it is sunny I get all the dawn colours.

This morning, there was a cacophony of dozens of birds of different types, singing in the same tree. It was louder than any of the other city sounds in morning. If that's how they mark territory, it must have been an avian World War I.

So yeah. Almost all my waking hours are work and writing now, though I've still had a chance to read The Iliad in bits and pieces, going to and from work. I can't believe it's taken me so long to start this wonderful book.

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[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

I loved the Illiad. ^_^ That class on classical literature I had as an undergrad was good all around actually: Illiad, Odyssey, Aneiad and Ovid's Metamorphosis.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

It helps to have a good translation. I inherited a bad prose translation and couldn't get into it.

Now I have a marvellous blank verse translation with all the names transliterated (Akhilleus instead of Achilles) and none of the references to Zeus turned to God. I'm enjoying it a lot.